Improvised Radio Theatre - With Dice: Latest posts
Video Games
Role-playing games and how to do them better.
Location:
United States
Genres:
Video Games
Description:
Role-playing games and how to do them better.
Language:
English
Website:
https://tekeli.li/podcast/
Episodes
Picaresque With Tentacles
4/30/2024
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This month, Mike and Roger consider our experiences with Enemy in Shadows, the first part of the classic Warhammer campaign, and look at the second edition of Reign.
Duration:01:08:18
The City is Like a Woman, and She Wants Her Alimony-
3/31/2024
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This month, Roger and Mike consider system choice and system mastery, and look at Mike's new Blades in the Dark campaign.
Duration:01:12:39
Slug Stores
2/29/2024
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This month, Mike and Roger consider how to do character sheets right, and ponder the future of generic systems.
Duration:01:31:22
My Sex Life is Cosmically Important
1/31/2024
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This month, Roger and Mike can't get away from bashing dungeons, and consider the (sadly still-extant) adversarial relationship between players and game masters.
Duration:01:08:15
James Wallis Burned My Boat
12/31/2023
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This month, Mike and Roger review a bumper set of Bundles of Holding, consider our gaming plans for 2024, and consider the deep history of RPGs.
Duration:01:01:31
A Mad Career Towards Some Dreadful Ending
11/30/2023
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This month, Roger and Mike consider railroading, its inevitability, and how to build characters who are a good fit for the campaign.
Duration:01:01:16
Quite Gnostic In Places
10/31/2023
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This month, Mike and Roger dissect Mongoose Traveller and a couple of campaigns Mike has run with it.
Duration:01:15:19
Character Description Language
9/30/2023
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This month, Roger and Mike consider class-and-level and other ways of building and improving characters.
Duration:00:55:19
As Long As They're Not Nibbling On Your Leg
8/31/2023
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This month, Mike and Roger indulge once more in RPG-a-Day all at once.
Duration:01:23:22
Weakly Godlike
7/31/2023
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This month, Roger and Mike consider gods (what sorts are interesting?) and revolution (which side is more fun to play on and how can we tilt that balance?).
Duration:01:14:56
Something John Dee Whipped Up
6/30/2023
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This month, Mike and Roger reveal that really the world was like this all along, and consider how the Planning Scene can be restrained (and when it should be).
Duration:01:14:02
The Friends You Leave In Shallow Graves
5/31/2023
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This month, Roger and Mike consider making travel interesting, and ask whether RPGs need escapism.
Duration:01:08:56
A Strong Antinomian Tendency
4/30/2023
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This month, Mike and Roger do an end-of-the-season review of one of Rogerâs masterpieces and let their inner Grumpy Old Men out to have a rant or two.
Duration:01:02:13
Unresolved Rage About Billy Bunter
3/31/2023
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This month, Roger and Mike consider social interactions modelled as combat, and magical school stories.
Duration:01:14:22
Determinedly Cheerful Or Just Obtuse
2/28/2023
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This month, Mike and Roger ask what makes a hero, and look into the benefits and drawbacks of doing character generation as a group.
Duration:01:25:13
Pretentious? Moi?
1/31/2023
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This month, Roger and Mike wonder why Roger doesn't get narrative games, and then contemplate the criminal life.
Duration:01:12:03
Idioculture
12/31/2022
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This month, Mike and Roger give each other gifts, and consider how to build an almost-historical setting.
Duration:01:09:55
You Could See Coronation Street From There
11/30/2022
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It's our tenth anniversary! So as a special exception to our usual format we talk to each other.
Duration:01:34:46
Too Busy Starving to Have a Civil War
10/31/2022
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This month, Mike and Roger try to end slavery. Turns out it's quite hard.
Duration:00:59:21
Investing in a Plausible Scotsman
9/30/2022
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This month, Roger and Mike revisit British history: this time, the Napoleonic Wars and the Regency.
Duration:01:21:06